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Re: example.com/net/org DNS records

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Sun Jan 04 17:10:11 2004 
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:43:36 PST, Roger Marquis said:

> Example.dom was placed in the pubic domain by a public and open RFC
> process.  It seems that IANA has violated this process and in so
> doing exceeded the authority vested in them by their contract with
> DARPA (and the DOC?).

Erm. No,  RFC2606 specifically says:

3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names

   The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the
   following second level domain names reserved which can be used as
   examples.

        example.com
        example.net
        example.org

4. IANA Considerations

   IANA has agreed to the four top level domain name reservations
   specified in this document and will reserve them for the uses
   indicated.

In other words, they're IANA reserved, and you're permitted to use them
for the purposes listed in the RFC.

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